On Memetics

Dawkins interviewed by WSJ in 2015. It is four minutes long. Memes are the topic.

Symbiology is a core concept in cultural evolution. Cultural creatures act as though they are parasites, mutualists or commensals with their...

Before the discovery of the importance of symbiosis, evolutionary theory worked with a few fundamental operations - prominently including sp...

The blurb reads: The ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another has allowed us to create ingenious tech...

For many years now, it has been very hard to get a paper published in Nature if it mentions memes. That still seems to be true, but I notic...

Leigh M. Van Valen (of Red Queen fame) came up with an early expression of Darwinan physics in 1989. He pointed out that natural selection...

Domestication is surely an important concept for students of cultural evolution. Unfortunately, it first requires the concept of a cultural ...

I've seen a fair number of new popular articles on memetics (not just memes) as a result of the internet meme explosion. Here's one ...

Social anthropologist and memeophobe Tim Ingold has recently posted: a piece explaining the problems he has with cultural evolution. He w...

I sometimes pick on Steven Pinker when he says something stupid . Here his ignorance of cultural evolution apparently leads to a blasé attit...